Developing Web Applications using Java Studio Creator

Once you have completed all the steps in all of the previous sections, it is now time to execute and test our application. 

You can execute the application by clicking on the "Run main project" button on the toolbar or by hitting Ctrl + F5.  It takes a while to view the output the first time you hit run, as it does a lot of things behind the screen

Once you execute the project, it automatically starts the "Sun Java System Application Server" (if is has not started before). Once the application server is started, you can already watch it in the system tray, and then your application gets deployed into that application server automatically. The entire process gets done during the following dialog box.

Once the deployment is done, it opens the web application using a browser (and it is IE in this case), and it displays our page. You can hit the "show" button and it should return the message "Hello World!" in the label as shown in the following figure.

That's it.  You can close your browser, go back to your IDE environment, modify the code and again execute the same any number of times.

How to view and manage the deployed Java web applications

All the Java web applications developed using Java Studio Creator shall be deployed using "Sun Java System Application Server" by default.

If you wanted to have a look at that application server, you can go to programs -> Sun Microsystems -> Sun Java Studio Creator 2 Update 1 -> Admin Console.  Once you hit it, you will be asked to log in to manage the application server. If it is the first time you installed it (along with Java Studio Creator), the user name should be "admin" and the password should be "adminadmin." 

Once you log into the application server, you will see several options on the screen.  At this point, we are just focusing on developing web applications. So, once you hit "Web Applications" in the "Applications" tree available in the left side pane, it will list all the web applications deployed on the server (few are by default) as shown in the following figure.

From there, you can completely manage any web application with the most used administrative tasks such as deploying, undeploying (or removing), enabling, disabling, launching (or testing) web applications, and so forth.

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